Thought it was a one time thing. Anyway, I don’t have any thermal paste and my computer is now shutting down every ten minutes once the flames of hell get to be too much for it.
How’s your night going?
Uhhhhhhhh don’t keep turning on your PC lol
If the CPU’s not already damaged, it’s certainly going to be
yeah I stopped once I figured out it was overheating but it was a good hour of destruction trying to figure out what was going wrong I guess
There shouldn't be any damage to your CPU unless you messed with some really advanced options. All modern CPUs nowadays throttle way back if they get to 90 degrees C so they don't damage themselves.
i've literally never done this before git gud
but on the other end, my being careful about stuff like this also leads to be overanalyzing simple food choices for hours at a time
argh, this post is super annoying to me because I've got extra thermal paste just laying around for exactly this occasion (needing to take a heatsink off unexpectedly/without a few days of warning)
You can get little sheets of graphite that replace thermal paste and are reusable. Afaik they perform 1-3 C worse but its worth it to avoid the hassle and stress of thermal paste imo.
remove any leftover paste from your cpu/heat sink with a bit of rubbing alcohol then put a pea sized drop of paste right in the middle of your cpu and press down on it with your heat sink to distribute it evenly, in one motion
good luck!
My dude, electrical engineer here, unironically - toothpaste works in a pinch for thermal paste to hold you over (arguably about as good as that cheap ceramic paste they use), but get some real stuff - it's cheap.
